Hi Radhika,

On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 8:39 AM Yeddanapudi Radhika <[email protected]>
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> Here are some of the books from this year in no particular order:
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> 1. The Liberation of Sita - Refreshing take rescuing Sita from remaining
> forever enshrined as the most boring, most submissive character in world
> mythology. It takes a Telugu woman!
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I am so glad to have found another person who read and liked this book. I
could not stop talking about the book for several weeks after I read it. I
even gave my copy to a friend who I wanted to read it.


> 3. Uzumaki - Required reading for me because I'm vending some Lovecraftian
> fiction from India to Spain and Mexico (it is an open ended experiment but
> I want it to succeed). Uzumaki is hypnotic and well, I ended up screaming
> at the sight of a towel soaked in a bucket in the shape of a...spiral! Read
> it to get the reference. I'd say it's fatalistic and antithetical to
> American optimism but may have been true to the 30s and 40s when Lovecraft
> was writing.
>

Horror is not my genre, but at the insistence of someone I read it.
*Shudder*. I can easily understand screaming out loud at seeing spirals. I
had nightmares for several days. My friend (the recommender) had met Junji
Ito in person at an event and said that he has a weird, Gothic-sense about
him.


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> Also, in Spanish:
> 1. El corazón helado - Almudena Grandes. Family saga set in the Spanish
> civil war. Okish. But I'm getting more into Los Pacientes del Doctor
> García.
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> 2. An anthology of Antonio Machado's poetry - the best poem played on the
> themes of life and poetry until you weren't sure which was a toy and which
> had no meaning.
>
> Hindi:
> 1. Just begun Ret Samadhi or Tomb of Sand.
>

Nice! keep the recommendations coming, y'all.

S.


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